3005, 2021

Monitoring the Health of NVMe SSDs-an insightful presentation on how to also manage their status.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ May 30, 2021/ All-flash arrays, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Flash Memory, Industry News and Expert Advice, Primary Storage Devices

Reading Time-approximately: 22 minutesMany capabilities have been built into NVMe technology, including enhancing error reporting, logging, management, debug, and telemetry. Here are insights on how you can manage the status and health of NVMe SSDs (like notifying users when an SSD failure occurs). By Jonmichael Hands (and for your convenience below the verbatim presentation , … word for word) 00:03 Speaker 1: Hey, guys,

2805, 2021

Costs and best use cases of QLC flash storage

Staff Writer/ May 28, 2021/ All-flash arrays, Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Flash Memory, Industry News and Expert Advice, Primary Storage Devices

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesQLC flash brings high capacities at costs coming down close to spinning disk. So what are the use cases for QLC solid state, which make best use of its relatively low endurance. By Maxwell Cooter We are truly entering the flash era. Four or five years ago, the market for flash storage was arguably still emerging, but since then solid state has

2901, 2021

Optimal architectures for intelligent storage systems

Staff Writer/ January 29, 2021/ Application-aware storage, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesExplore the best, most optimal architectures for intelligent storage and how these systems improve storage performance/utilization to help get more bang out of your data set buck. By Dan Sullivan Brute force has been the critical lever to achieving advances in storage technology for much of its history. Making storage devices bigger, faster and denser has worked well and will

1601, 2021

Storage virtualization terminology

Staff Writer/ January 16, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAN Technology and Arrays, SAN technology and arrays, Tekmart Partner Content, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesAlthough storage virtualization is a term that is used extensively throughout the storageindustry, it can be applied to a wide range of technologies and underlying capabilities. Inreality, most storage devices can technically claim to be virtualized in one form or another. Tekmart Support Team Therefore, we must start by defining the concept of storage virtualization as used in this tutorial.

2312, 2020

What is SAN zoning and what are the different types of zoning?

T-Blog Editor/ December 23, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Cloud computing, Cloud Storage, Computational Storage, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAN Technology and Arrays

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesZoning can be set up according to server, storage and SAN switch. Discover what type of zoning to use, how zone sets extend SAN segmentation and about the various zoning schemas. By Simon Gordon and Garry Kranz SAN zoning gains importance once your SAN includes more than a couple dozen devices. During the early days of SAN, there was debate

2209, 2020

Server hardware guide to architecture, products and management

T-Blog Editor/ September 22, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center server infrastructure and OSes, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 11 minutesToday’s server platforms offer a host of options for SMBs and enterprise IT buyers; it’s important to learn the essentials before making any purchasing decisions. By John Moore The explosive growth of cloud computing platforms and the preceding wave of virtualization have significantly altered the role of the server among SMBs and enterprises. Virtualization enabled organizations to load multiple virtual

1309, 2020

Four options to optimize SSD performance in the data center

T-Blog Editor/ September 13, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAs more organizations adopt SSDs, practices for storage optimization need to evolve. Learn how tactics, such as disabling defragmentation and using the write cache, can play a role. By Stephen J. Bigelow Solid-state drive storage has gained traction as enterprises seek faster and more reliable storage for top-tier applications. But the rise in solid-state drive deployment has also spawned a

1309, 2020

Which data center KPIs are the most useful?

T-Blog Editor/ September 13, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, Enterprise data storage strategies, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesAs admins evaluate data center performance, they need ways to look at both short-term and long-term data. KPIs offer one way to evaluate components, such as storage. By Stephen J. Bigelow Data center admins must regularly gauge hardware and software performance to help them make decisions about upgrades and staffing. Key performance indicators are a useful way to gain perspective